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Musings invite readers into
mystery of the'gracious one'
THE GRACIOUS MYSTERY: FINDING
GOP IN ORDINARY EXPERIENCE
By James J. Bacik
St. Anthony Messenger Press, 141 pages, $5.95
ByJOHN LYNCH
Summer is a good time for gracious
reading, especially when it is imaginatively insightful, refreshing and reflective,
as is Father James Bacik's The Gracious
Mystery. Treat yourself to this concise
volume of contemporary musings, which
invite the reader into the mystery that
Rahnerian Bacik addresses as "the gracious one."
Bacik assists those searching for ultimate concerns that can overcome our
dullness and/or fragmentation so we can
lay down roots that will sustain. He urges
Father John Lynch is the associate director of formation at Niles College Seminary of Loyola University, Chicago.
the reader to stay in touch with concrete
experience and to value working out a
solid understanding of humanness so we
can find God in the ordinary things of life.
His attitude is positively hopeful as he
constructively pulls from the inevitable
tensions of life "the gracious one" in such
a convincing way that the reader longs to
know and "trust in a God who faithfully
and lovingly guides us into an essentially
unknowable future."
Bacik's wise suggestions alert us to
ways in which people, events, customs
and celebrations can be massaged for
clues that will help the reader manage
the human predicament as a gift because
we can imagine ourselves immersed in a
world of gracious spirit.
The Gracious Mystery, like so much of
Bacik's writings, alerts us to the surprising resources in our own hearts for discovering light in the darkness, the infinite,
gracious, merciful one in our finite experience. ■
August 11,1989

Musings invite readers into
mystery of the'gracious one'
THE GRACIOUS MYSTERY: FINDING
GOP IN ORDINARY EXPERIENCE
By James J. Bacik
St. Anthony Messenger Press, 141 pages, $5.95
ByJOHN LYNCH
Summer is a good time for gracious
reading, especially when it is imaginatively insightful, refreshing and reflective,
as is Father James Bacik's The Gracious
Mystery. Treat yourself to this concise
volume of contemporary musings, which
invite the reader into the mystery that
Rahnerian Bacik addresses as "the gracious one."
Bacik assists those searching for ultimate concerns that can overcome our
dullness and/or fragmentation so we can
lay down roots that will sustain. He urges
Father John Lynch is the associate director of formation at Niles College Seminary of Loyola University, Chicago.
the reader to stay in touch with concrete
experience and to value working out a
solid understanding of humanness so we
can find God in the ordinary things of life.
His attitude is positively hopeful as he
constructively pulls from the inevitable
tensions of life "the gracious one" in such
a convincing way that the reader longs to
know and "trust in a God who faithfully
and lovingly guides us into an essentially
unknowable future."
Bacik's wise suggestions alert us to
ways in which people, events, customs
and celebrations can be massaged for
clues that will help the reader manage
the human predicament as a gift because
we can imagine ourselves immersed in a
world of gracious spirit.
The Gracious Mystery, like so much of
Bacik's writings, alerts us to the surprising resources in our own hearts for discovering light in the darkness, the infinite,
gracious, merciful one in our finite experience. ■
August 11,1989